The article identifies various forms of dialogical relations with L. N. Tolstoy in Bunin’s cycle Dark Alleys. The analysis is based on the stories: “Clean Monday”, “Nathalie”, “Ballad” and “The Raven”, which contain ...

The article investigates references to Shakespeare in the works of Viktor Shklovsky, an outstanding representative of the Russian formalism. The author of the paper analyses literary studies by Shklovsky in which Shakespeare’s ...

Феномен дуэли в одноименной повести Чехова рассматривется в контексте осмысления писателем одной из базовых моделей русской культуры на фоне сложившейся в течение XIX века литературной традиции. Кардинальное переосмысление ...

This paper analyses and interprets possible sources of the subtext in Genrikh Sapgir’s poem “Parad idiotov” [‘A Parade of idiots’], namely motifs of the road and marching onward, as reflected in the revolutionary parades ...

The aim of the article is to publish and discuss a little-known text from the end of the 17th century – a model representative of the poetic form called carmen echicum. Difficult fragments are commented upon and the plot ...

В статье рассматриваются некоторые особенности рецепции Кушнером гоголевской поэмы "Мертве души". Анализируются прямые высказывания современного поэта о класси- ческом произведении и его авторе, включенные в эссе поэта, ...

In the contemporary literary studies, the category ‘motto’ has a well-established position, although one often meets an opinion that a uniform theory of universal motto has not been developed yet. This article is an ...

Alexander Kushner’s poetry is an endless and timeless dialogue with his predecessors. Alexander Pushkin has a special place among them. Overt and covert references to the author of “Eugene Onegin” are present at various ...

Статья посвящена феномену сверхтекста, его характеристике и классификациям. Осо- бое внимание уделяется Петербургскому тексту Александра Кушнера. Рассматриваются клю- чевые для данного сверхтекста образы и их репрезентации ...

The object of this article is modern Russian-language poetry in Ukraine as represented by its main personalities. The author argues that Russian-language literature in Ukraine is afar from accidental phenomenon andthat it ...